I went to the NHS-R Community Conference in Birmingham on Tuesday. It was great. Here are three observations about it. […]
I went to the NHS-R Community Conference in Birmingham on Tuesday. It was great. Here are three observations about it. […]
At the NHS R Conference, I suggested to people that they should embrace the idea of package-based development rather than […]
Installation Instructions (Part 1 of 2) Windows Users To Install R: Open an internet browser and go to r-project.org. Click the […]
I was starting to despair at the amount of packages I end up using during the task of transforming, cleaning, […]
This blog is an initial attempt to garner interest in a project to create NHS synthetic datasets in a range […]
There are many occasions when a column of data needs to be created from an already existing column for ease […]
Adapted from source: https://www.r-project.org/logo/ The beginning My journey with R began when a colleague of mine said […]
I’ve had some feedback on the last post, and rather than repeat the same thing multiple times, I’m going all @drob, […]
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, message = FALSE, cache = TRUE, warning = FALSE) if(!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman") library(pacman) p_load(readxl, tidyverse, corrplot, tmap, geojsonio, […]
comparing dplyr with SQL nested queries Following on from my last post, where I demonstrated R to some first time […]
Violin Plots This chart is a combination of a Box Plot and a Density Plo that is rotated and placed on each side, […]
Background of Pareto Charts A Pareto chart, named after Vilfredo Pareto, is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph, where individual […]
Histograms (with auto binning) Again, we will use the mtcars dataset and use the fields in that to produce the […]
Creating the Dot Plot Variance chart The data preparation was used in the previous blog entitled: Diverging Bar Charts – Plotting […]
Diverging Bar Charts The aim here is to create a diverging bar chart that shows variance above and below an […]
Unlike most of the 2017/2018 cohort, when I applied to become a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, I was […]
I love keyboard shortcuts. I work in R studio and using keyboard shortcuts has saved me a lot of time. […]
Namespace issues Most of the functionality in R comes from additional packages that you load. Sometimes two packages will have […]
This blog originally appeared in http://gastrodatascience.com There are a large number of file types that are able to store […]
A new version of R (version 3.5.0) has just been released. Windows users can upgrade R by using the installr […]
I work as a Data Scientist at Public Health England. I am part of a small team that have a […]
Organising your work on a computer is crucial. Here is a simple, but effective, workflow that might also work for […]
Hello. My name is Julian and I am an R addict. I got hooked about 3 years ago when I […]
Whilst there are a suite of libraries for importing/exporting data to/from R (the newest arrival is readit which makes it […]
